Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

Middleage! or Old?

Today I was watching the World Music Award on the TV, it's been a few years since I last saw the program.

I have to admire the artists for their perfomances, and talents.

But what's amazing me, is the change in how they classifie music today, compared to, about five decades ago. Can you imagine that just in the midle of the sixties R&B was synonymous to The Rolling Stones, and now the Worls Music Award in the same class goes to Alicia Keys??
Ok! I know that the world is changing, and faster that I can hang on with.

I remember when in the middle of the sixties, my favourite piece of music was the House of the Rising Sun with The Animales, later on this was to become one of the songs I collected, every version that I could find with any band in the world. The Animals was introduced into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. But it took fourteen more years before my favourite band was introduced, The Ventures, that made numerous different versions of that traditional masterpiece.


The theme of the song is marvelous, I can easily make an halfhour jamsession around the theme, and I often do with my old Hagstrom II guitar from the sixties, now even more often after the restoration of the guitar. I managed to find allmost all parts in orginal, last spring when I restuarated the guitar as near to orginal as possible.
The Hagstrom II guitar is absolutely the most easy and the fastest guitar to play, I have tried all the other big brands also.

I personally bought my Hagstrom II from the Hagstrom store in Stockholm, Sweden in 1971, and was informed that the one I bought was the last one of the production year 1965 that was on sale. Here is a picture before the restauration in 2008, 43 years after the production.

The Hagstrom Guitar has been reborn, but havn't had the opportunity to try one yet.

These are thoughts and memories from my lifetime and love to music.

Your Lazy Blogger wishes all of you,

a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Lasse

Ciao everyone,

Velho and Velhotar har been attending am Italian wedding on the 18 octobre in Vico Equense in the south of Italy. Here is a link to a few pictures from the occation

VicoWedding

We also saw a lot of friends from both Finland an Italy at the wedding.

Waiting ...

Hi everyone,

Here at Velhola it's starting to be autumn, the leaves are falling from the trees and it's raining.



Nevertheless, soon we are going on our vacation trip to Sorrento, Italy, where we hope to have a bit warmer and overall better weather. We will also attend an italian wedding, so maybe I'll post some pictures later from the wedding.

Nature Gallery updated

Hi everyone,

I've just updated the Nature Gallery at www.velhola.com

The newest pic's are taken from a distance of more than 15 meters using the lately aquired camera Olympus SP-560 UZ, looks promising!

A more deep test of the capabilities of the camera will be performed in October when the Velhos and a bunch of other finns will visit Sorrento for a wedding, wait and see...

Lasse

Photographs

Ciao tutti,

Velho has just updated his Gallerys at www.velhola.com so why don't you just have a look:-)

The lazy blogger.

Midsummer

Ciao Readers,

It's midsummer over here in Finland, the sun is up allmost around the clock, and Velho and Velhotar have a babysitting phase, Velhotars sons dog is here while her son and family is visiting Greece for a two week holliday in Kefalonia.
Our traditional midsummer is postponed to August when all of our children can be present, so for now we're celebrating a different midsummer, only us and the brother of Velhotar in the middle of our renovation of our Sauna building, pictures of the result later, but here is one picture of the babysitting dog using my t-shirt from years ago:-)

Velho